Megan Scott inducted into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame

8/29/2008 Capital Times

Standing outside the Shell on a warm August afternoon, it was hard not to be taken aback by the nine prominent individuals inducted into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame. Of the six living inductees in attendance, each has their own interesting story of how they came to Madison, where they went after, and what this honor means to them.

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While all of the inductees are worthy of the honor, Megan Scott stands alone as the only woman to be a three-sport letterwinner at Wisconsin. Scott lettered in track in 1984, and played basketball and volleyball from 1983-84.

"For me, it took a lot of effort, a lot of time and energy, which I enjoyed, to letter in three sports because I was willing to do it, and if someone is going to do it they have to be willing to do it and make sacrifices," said Scott, who graduated with a degree in interior design and has a career in sales designing commercial kitchens and bars for restaurants.

Even Scott is a little surprised to see that she is without company, but understands that times have changed and the need to specialize in one sport is very high for today's college athlete.

"I'm honored to be the person to do that, and I can understand nowadays, athletes focus more on one sport," Scott said. "They focus more on one sport but there are so many opportunities once you get out of college for an athlete than there was when I was in college."

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 From the pages of "On Wisconsin, The History of Badger Athletics" by Don Kopriva and Jim Mott.

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